Lab equipment

Everything I work with, from AI models and harnesses to MCP servers, data sources and services. Pick any plate on the wall to see what I use it for and where.

AI models

Claude

Anthropic · AI models

My main model family. It does most of the building and writing in almost every experiment.
- Opus 4.6 to 5.5 My main model for building, writing and reasoning through a project; Opus 5.5 since September 2026.
- Sonnet 5.5 The faster model behind quick in-app changes, where waiting matters more than depth.
- Fable 5 and 5.1 Anthropic's largest model, used for some builds and long reviews.
Visit anthropic.com

Used in
ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs · AI models

Patient voices in Consulta's public version.

Flash v2.5 and v3 Conversational

Visit elevenlabs.io

Used in
- Medical Spanish practice
Gemini

Google · AI models

Final checks from a third model family, the voices that won my blind test, and some app artwork.
- Gemini 4 Argon A third-family reviewer, run through Agy, for final checks before release.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS Designed voices that won my blind test, and narration voices.
- Nano Banana Pro (Gemini image) Image generation inside Magnific for app artwork.
Visit deepmind.google

Used in
GPT

OpenAI · AI models

The second opinion: independent reviews of what Claude built, long autonomous runs in Codex, images and speech.
- GPT-5.5 to GPT-6.1 in Codex The second opinion: independent reviews of what Claude built, and long autonomous Codex runs.
- GPT-5.4 nano and embeddings Cheap, high-volume triage and search over thousands of news articles.
- GPT Image in Codex Fast, free visual concepts before I commit to anything.
- gpt-4o-mini-tts A patient voice I tested and found too generic.
Visit platform.openai.com

Used in
Jev

TypeSafe · AI models

Typed yes-or-no judgments inside code, tested against an LLM triage gate.

Visit typesafe.ai

Used in
Magnific One

Magnific · AI models

On-brand illustrations generated from the lab's brand kit.

Visit magnific.com

Used in
- Building the lab
Mistral

Mistral AI · AI models

My default for reading scanned documents and for speech: OCR, transcription and narration.
- Mistral OCR v3 My default for reading scanned documents and PDFs.
- Voxtral Speech-to-text for learner audio and class recordings, and narration voices.
Visit mistral.ai

Used in
Parakeet

NVIDIA · AI models

Offline multilingual transcription of meeting recordings.

Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3

Visit huggingface.co

Used in
- Meeting recorder

Harnesses and agents

Antigravity CLI (Agy)

Google · Harnesses and agents

Runs Gemini models as an independent reviewer.

Visit antigravity.google

Used in
Claude Code

Anthropic · Harnesses and agents

Where most experiments happen: Claude working in the terminal on real files.

Visit claude.com

Used in
Codex CLI

OpenAI · Harnesses and agents

Runs GPT models as a second worker and reviewer, and generates images.

Visit github.com

Used in
Hermes Agent

Nous Research · Harnesses and agents

My phone assistant, which other tools can message and act through.

Visit hermes-agent.nousresearch.com

Used in
- E-paper home display

MCP servers

Comtrade Pharma MCP

Local MCP server · MCP servers

Lets Claude query UN Comtrade medicine trade and compute trade indices.

Read the experiment

Used in
- Comtrade pharma MCP
Magnific MCP

Magnific · MCP servers

Brand kits, vector tracing, upscaling and image generation from inside Claude.

Visit magnific.com

Used in
OECD Health MCP

Local MCP server (fork of OECD-MCP) · MCP servers

Lets Claude query OECD Health Division statistics through curated indicators.

Read the experiment

Upstream project

Used in
- OECD Health MCP
Paper MCP

Paper · MCP servers

Lets Claude build and read layouts in a Paper design file.

Visit paper.design

Used in
- Pharma trade chord
WHO GHED MCP

Local MCP server · MCP servers

Lets Claude query the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database directly.

Visit github.com

Used in
WHO GHO MCP

Local MCP server · MCP servers

Lets Claude query the WHO Global Health Observatory.

Visit github.com

Used in
- WHO data MCPs

Data sources

American Community Survey

US Census Bureau · Data sources

County demographics and measured disability.

Visit census.gov

Used in
- US county health atlas
CDC PLACES

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Data sources

Model-based county estimates of 40 health measures.

Visit cdc.gov

Used in
- US county health atlas
CDC WONDER

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Data sources

County death counts by cause, used under the NCHS small-count rules.

Visit wonder.cdc.gov

Used in
- US county health atlas
CMS Medicare data

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Data sources

Part D spending, negotiated prices, plan pricing files and Medicare claims prevalence.

Visit data.cms.gov

Used in
- Medicare drug prices
- US county health atlas
Comparative Constitutions Project

Elkins and Ginsburg · Data sources

Coded contents of every national constitution since 1789.

Visit comparativeconstitutionsproject.org

Used in
- Constitutions and health
DANE

Colombia's national statistics office · Data sources

Survey microdata, vital statistics and population projections for Colombia.

Visit dane.gov.co

Used in
- Insured but not served
- Colombia child mortality
ExerciseDB

ExerciseDB · Data sources

1,000 exercises with animated GIFs, the second source for the curated library.

Visit exercisedb.dev

Used in
- Personal gym app
football-data.org

football-data.org · Data sources

Free live fixtures and results that scored the World Cup brackets.

Visit football-data.org

Used in
- World Cup pool
Free Exercise DB

Open source (yuhonas) · Data sources

An open database of 873 exercises with images, filtered to one gym's equipment.

Visit github.com

Used in
- Personal gym app
INVIMA drug register

Colombia's medicines regulator · Data sources

Public registry of approved medicines, used to anchor which products count.

Visit invima.gov.co

Used in
- LAC medicine prices
Mozilla Common Voice (Spanish)

Mozilla · Data sources

CC0 voice clips I could legally clone a first patient voice from.

Visit commonvoice.mozilla.org

Used in
- Medical Spanish practice
NADAC (Medicaid)

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Data sources

Weekly prices retail pharmacies pay for each drug package.

Visit data.medicaid.gov

Used in
- Medicare drug prices
OECD health statistics (SDMX API)

OECD · Data sources

Health statistics for OECD members through the public SDMX API.

Visit data-explorer.oecd.org

Used in
- OECD Health MCP
Open-Meteo

Open-Meteo · Data sources

Free weather forecasts, no key needed.

Visit open-meteo.com

Used in
- E-paper home display
OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap Foundation · Data sources

Open street data for placing points on a city grid.

Visit openstreetmap.org

Used in
- Bogotá rental finder
Supersalud PQRD data

Superintendencia Nacional de Salud (Colombia) · Data sources

Monthly complaint reports and record-level complaint microdata.

Visit supersalud.gov.co

Used in
- Colombia's health complaints
UN Comtrade

United Nations Statistics Division · Data sources

Country-to-country trade by product, used for medicine trade.

Visit comtradeplus.un.org

Used in
- Pharma trade chord
- Comtrade pharma MCP
WHO Global Health Expenditure Database

World Health Organization · Data sources

Health spending by source for every country, 2000 onwards.

Visit apps.who.int

Used in
WHO Global Health Observatory

World Health Organization · Data sources

Over 3,000 health indicators through an open API.

Visit who.int

Used in
WHO World Health Statistics

World Health Organization · Data sources

Country health outcome indicators (mortality, life expectancy, coverage).

Visit who.int

Used in
- Constitutions and health
World Development Indicators

World Bank · Data sources

GDP per capita and health spending indicators.

Visit databank.worldbank.org

Used in
- Constitutions and health
WTO Timeseries API

World Trade Organization · Data sources

Applied tariffs and trade figures to cross-check Comtrade.

Visit stats.wto.org

Used in
- Comtrade pharma MCP

Design and media

Blender

Blender Foundation · Design and media

3D scenes built and rendered from Python scripts.

Visit blender.org

Used in
- Motion studio
D3

Observable / open source · Design and media

Draws the directed chord layout.

Visit d3js.org

Used in
- US county health atlas
- Pharma trade chord
Figma

Figma · Design and media

Design systems and libraries.

Visit figma.com

Used in
GB Studio Community Assets

GB Studio community · Design and media

MIT-licensed pixel characters, recoloured for 8-Bit Gym.

Visit github.com

Used in
- Personal gym app
HyperFrames

HeyGen · Design and media

Graphics-led motion compositions rendered to video.

Visit github.com

Used in
- Motion studio
Magnific

Magnific · Design and media

Upscaling and vector tracing for the lab's artwork.

Visit magnific.com

Used in
Modern Interiors

LimeZu · Design and media

A licensed pixel asset pack some 8-Bit Gym machines were redrawn from.

Visit limezu.itch.io

Used in
- Personal gym app
Observable Plot

Observable · Design and media

Renders report charts from data in a few lines of code.

Visit observablehq.com

Used in
- LAC medicine prices
p5.js and p5.brush

p5.js community; Alejandro Campos (p5.brush) · Design and media

Painted-look 2D animation drawn in code.

Visit github.com

Used in
- Motion studio
Paper

Paper · Design and media

Design canvas where I adjusted the poster layout by hand.

Visit paper.design

Used in
- World Cup pool
- Pharma trade chord
resvg-js

open source · Design and media

Rasterises SVG posters to PNG with embedded fonts intact.

Visit github.com

Used in
- Pharma trade chord
Three.js

Three.js open-source project · Design and media

Fast 3D scenes rendered frame by frame in a headless browser.

Visit threejs.org

Used in
- 3D tablet plant
- Motion studio

Code and infrastructure

Android SDK and emulator

Google · Code and infrastructure

Building and signing apps on the Mac and testing them in an emulator before the device.

Visit developer.android.com

Used in
- Handheld as Mac remote
- Primary Doctor
Arduino CLI and ESP32 core

Arduino and Espressif · Code and infrastructure

Compiling and flashing my own firmware for ESP32 devices.

Visit arduino.github.io

Used in
- E-paper home display
Astro

Astro · Code and infrastructure

Builds fast static websites from plain components.

Visit astro.build

Used in
- Artist's website
Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare · Code and infrastructure

Serverless hosting I tried before moving an app to Vercel.

Visit workers.cloudflare.com

Used in
- Bogotá rental finder
- Residents' shift scheduler
DuckDB

DuckDB Foundation · Code and infrastructure

A single-file database for querying millions of records on a laptop.

Visit duckdb.org

Used in
- Colombia's health complaints
FFmpeg

FFmpeg project · Code and infrastructure

Encodes and mixes audio, and joins rendered frames and sound into videos.

Visit ffmpeg.org

Used in
- Motion studio
- Meeting recorder
FluidAudio

FluidInference · Code and infrastructure

Runs Parakeet speech recognition on the Mac's Neural Engine.

Visit github.com

Used in
- Meeting recorder
GitHub and GitHub Pages

GitHub · Code and infrastructure

Version history for every experiment, and free hosting for the site.

Visit github.com

Used in
Godot Engine

Godot Foundation (open source) · Code and infrastructure

The game engine for my own handheld games, with Android and web exports.

Visit godotengine.org

Used in
- Primary Doctor
HiGHS

HiGHS (open source) · Code and infrastructure

Solves scheduling problems as mixed-integer programs, right in the browser.

Visit highs.dev

Used in
- Residents' shift scheduler
Jupyter Notebook

Project Jupyter · Code and infrastructure

Step-by-step analyses with code, charts and notes together.

Visit jupyter.org

Used in
- Colombia child mortality
MapLibre GL JS

MapLibre · Code and infrastructure

Draws interactive maps.

Visit maplibre.org

Used in
- Bogotá rental finder
Next.js

Vercel · Code and infrastructure

The web framework for apps that need more than static pages.

Visit nextjs.org

Used in
Node.js

OpenJS Foundation · Code and infrastructure

Runs the TypeScript OECD server and the chord rendering scripts.

Visit nodejs.org

Used in
Ollama

Ollama · Code and infrastructure

Runs open models locally on the Mac, reachable from the phone over the private network.

Visit ollama.com

Used in
- Phone to Mac shelf
Playwright

Microsoft · Code and infrastructure

Drives real browsers to test my apps and capture screenshots.

Visit playwright.dev

Used in
PyPI

Python Software Foundation · Code and infrastructure

Hosts the published ghed-mcp and gho-mcp packages.

Visit pypi.org

Used in
- WHO data MCPs
Python and uv

Open source · Code and infrastructure

Scripts, pipelines and this site's build.

Visit docs.astral.sh

Used in
R survey package

Thomas Lumley (CRAN) · Code and infrastructure

The reference implementation I check my complex-survey estimates against.

Visit cran.r-project.org

Used in
- Insured but not served
Resemblyzer

Resemble AI · Code and infrastructure

Speaker embeddings to check that a synthetic voice stays the same across clips.

Visit github.com

Used in
- Medical Spanish practice
SpriteKit

Apple · Code and infrastructure

The walkable pixel-art world in 8-Bit Gym.

Visit developer.apple.com

Used in
- Personal gym app
SQLite

SQLite project · Code and infrastructure

Local database that ghed-mcp builds from WHO's workbook for fast queries.

Visit sqlite.org

Used in
- WHO data MCPs
- LAC medicine prices
Supabase

Supabase · Code and infrastructure

A hosted Postgres database for apps that store entries.

Visit supabase.com

Used in
Swift

Apple · Code and infrastructure

The language for my Mac and iPhone tools.

Visit swift.org

Used in
- Meeting recorder
SwiftUI and SwiftData

Apple · Code and infrastructure

Interfaces and local storage for the iPhone and Mac apps.

Visit developer.apple.com

Used in
- Personal gym app
Tailscale

Tailscale · Code and infrastructure

A private network between the Mac and the iPhone, with HTTPS for pages that never go public.

Visit tailscale.com

Used in
- Handheld as Mac remote
- Phone to Mac shelf
Turso

Turso · Code and infrastructure

A hosted SQLite database for small apps.

Visit turso.tech

Used in
- Residents' shift scheduler
Upstash Redis

Upstash · Code and infrastructure

A small serverless database for live shared state.

Visit upstash.com

Used in
- 7 Wonders scorekeeper
Vercel

Vercel · Code and infrastructure

Hosting and scheduled jobs for sites that need a backend.

Visit vercel.com

Used in
Xcode and the iOS Simulator

Apple · Code and infrastructure

Builds, tests and installs the iPhone apps without the App Store.

Visit developer.apple.com

Used in
- Personal gym app

Apps and services

Bluetooth Remote (open source)

jqssun, on Atharok's BtRemote · Apps and services

The GPL app I patched so the handheld's sticks and buttons act as a mouse and keyboard.

Visit github.com

Used in
- Handheld as Mac remote
ChatGPT

OpenAI · Apps and services

Deep research on the literature and the evidence behind a project, and simulated peer reviews of drafts.
- ChatGPT Literature deep research and simulated journal peer reviews of drafts.
- ChatGPT Pro and Deep Research Deep research and synthesis of the evidence behind a project.
Visit chatgpt.com

Used in
- Personal gym app
- Constitutions and health
Chrome Remote Desktop

Google · Apps and services

Shows the Mac's screen on an iPad when working away from it.

Visit remotedesktop.google.com

Used in
- Handheld as Mac remote
edge-tts (Microsoft neural voices)

Open-source library over Microsoft's Edge voices · Apps and services

Narrated audio versions of study notes in a Colombian Spanish voice.

Visit github.com

Used in
- Study notes from recordings
Porkbun

Porkbun · Apps and services

Domain registrar; I connect domains to my sites through its DNS API.

Visit porkbun.com

Used in
- Artist's website
RetroArch

Libretro (open source) · Apps and services

Runs classic games I already own on the handheld.

Visit retroarch.com

Used in
- Handheld as Mac remote
SwiftBar

Open source (Ameba Labs) · Apps and services

Turns a script into a Mac menu-bar item with a web popover.

Visit swiftbar.app

Used in
- Meeting recorder
- AI quota gauge
Syncthing

Syncthing Foundation (open source) · Apps and services

One-way backup of the handheld's game saves to the Mac.

Visit syncthing.net

Used in
- Handheld as Mac remote

Hardware

reTerminal E1003

Seeed Studio · Hardware

A 10.3-inch, 16-grey touch e-paper screen with an ESP32-S3 that shows pages rendered on the Mac.

Visit wiki.seeedstudio.com

Used in
- E-paper home display
Retroid Pocket 5

Retroid · Hardware

An Android game handheld for classic games, my own games and as a remote keyboard and mouse.

Visit goretroid.com

Used in
- Handheld as Mac remote